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VOL. IV. ASYLUM HOLOCAUST Twenty=Eight Helpless Little Or¬ phans Meet Horrible Death. SCENE FEARFUL AND SICKENING Rochester, N. Y., Orphan Asylum Takes Fire While Inmates Slept and Is Destroyed. A special from Rochester, N. Y., says: Twenty-eight dead bodies lie at the morgue, and twelve others, more or less seriously injured, lie at the dif¬ ferent hospital in the city os a result of the terrible holocaust which oo curred early Thursday morning at the Rochester orphan asylum. Of the dead twenty-six were children of both sexes, ranging from two to fourteen years, while the remaining two were adults. The fire, which were discov ered about 1:10 a. m,, and was doubt le88 caused by an explosion of natural gas in the boiler room, adjoining the west wing of the asylum, spread so rapidly that many of the 109 inmates of the institution were overcome by the flames and smoke almost without warning. three story The asylum was a of Hubbell structure at the corner Park and Exchange street. Of all the fatal fires iu Rochester, uoue can be found which can equal this one in its general horror, in the paretic blotted scenes in which so many lives w r ere out; in the gallant sacrifice of lives of the attendants in whose care the chil dren were, and in the Bad scenes at the hospitals and morgues. That so many wing children of the were building snyod from the west seems little short of miraculous, and when the ruins were visited one mar veled that the death roll was not evou larger. The scene following almost immediately upon the discovery of the fire and the accompanying explosion, was one which turned the stoutest hearts sick. The windows of the west wing were tilled with the terrified faces ‘of tiny waifs. - Working like men possessed, the firemen straggled to release them from their perilous position. The rooms of the dormitory were filled with the smoke of the fire, and the little ones were being slowly suffo rated. Most of those rescued were lowered to the ground by means of ladders from the second and third sto ries. The ambulances from every hospital in the city reached the sceno almost a soon as the fire department, but they proved totally inadequate in provid ing for those rescued. Many sufferers and the dead were removed to the houses in the immediate neighbor hood. There were awful scenes around the asylum at this time. The roof was covered with children, who had escaped through the scuttle of the roof and the firemen were kept busy carrying them down. Many escaped unharmed in this way. One nearby house was liken morgue, Half a dozen dead bodies lay on the floor in heaps of consumed rags. Crowds gathered around to look but turned away quickly, sickened at the dreadful sight. Most of those, rescued from the ed. A general alarm was sent in and the entire fire department was soon on the scene, lhe fire was stubbornly fought from every avaiUble point but it was over an hour after its discovery before it was under control. The horrors near the asylum were beyond description A large portion of the asylum was destroyed, and the portion that remains standing is prob ably in such condition that its demo htion will be necessary. TENNESSEE SOLONS ORGANIZE. Legislature Get* Down to Bttii*©**—Mc Millin Send* Hi* Message. The Tennessee legislature completed its organization at Nashville Tuesday and notified Governor MeMillin that it was readv for business. The governor ...poDde'd th.t 1 ..ndta U. cramf nominee, for’officers .&d cl^k. were formally elected. ALLEGED ABDUCTION. Student of Georgia Tech I» Spirited Away From Atlanta. Frank Bass Frazer,of Union Springs, Ala., a nineteen-year-old student Georgia Technological school, was kid naped at Atlanta last Saturday after noon. He was taken in a stupefied condition to Kansas City and is now held there by his abductors, for ran Th...l,S« *» * b X'd P T; SJLXL' oT£V n dressed to the father of the.stoleu boy, Captain N. H. Frazer. The writer wishes to know how much will be pa:d as ransom. Wayne County ►— a 3 /5 c JESUP. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. JANUARY 12. 11)01. fl’SWEENEY INAUGURATED. For Second Time He Assumes Gov¬ ernorship of South Carolina. Legislature Convenes. The South Carolina general assem * bly convened in Columbia Tuesday at noon and the message of Governor McSwceney was transmitted, The governor’s recommendation as to the dispensary indicates a desire to give the towns and counties more imme diate control of the local concerns. He also makes very important recom¬ mendations as to child labor in the cotton mills. In his introduction the governor says: “You need no better evidence of the progress and prosperity of the state than that presented in the figures contained in the annual report of the secretary of state. From this report it will be seen that approximately $i5 ( 000,000 were invested the past y ear i n South Carolina companies; and -while a Jcrge proportion of it is in C0 jt 0 n mill building, yet many smaller manufacturing enterprises and indus t r j es have been organized, “The receipts for the year, including §508,875 brought over in cash, were $3^60,452. This includes $191,300 f ronl the dispensary. Cash on hand j anuary \ t $625,438. “Encouraging reports come from the schools and colleges of our own 8 t a te, and yet much remains to be done to increase the efficiency of our public schools. The first essential is teachers of high moral character and a dequate professional equipment, “The importance of levying an ad ditional tax for the support of the country schools cannot be too strongly urged upon our people, “The county common schools for white children were kept open on an avera g e during the past year of twenty one weeks and the negro schools for fifteen weeks. * “The previous year the white schools averaged nineteen weeks and the’col <j rec i schools fourteen and a half weeks, q^he enrollment in the white schools during the past year was 126,289; in the colored schools, 155,602; total, 281,891. For the previous year the enrollment was: Whites, 123,398; ne groeB> 146,477; total, 269,875. The expenditures for white schools during ) a8 t year were $700,540.60, while dur jng the year previous they were $576,- 353 . 26 ; for the negro schools last year, $202,178.93, and the year previous $193,461.39. “There were 3,270 white teachers an d 2,294 negro teachers in the schools last year over against 3,000 white teachers and 2,003 negro teachers the previous year—a gain of 270 white teachers aud 291 negro teachers, “The question of child labor in our co tton mills is one that has been at tracting a great deal of attention re¬ cently, and properly so. Government recognizes the fact that it is the duty of the strong to care for and protect the weak. It is certainly the right ■ an( j the privilege of government to provide for the inspection of any and a q enterprises or corporations deriving their life from the state and to see that they do not impose upon the weak.” As to the dispensary, the message ! 8a y 8 i n part: ! '■Tb. P , r »t m.,b. ; ’ enforcement .. A ^f atpln ar „ f flV nr of |£ f the > jJ law As nub Bent jmeQt « 8 favor (twill nforc{j - t Tbe m 8 and intendaQts of tLe town8 and ci ti es the 8tate , ’ in response J,„ to a circular ' ^ , “ j - dar J f v ove mber state | j is well nforced and is for that 8e ntiment of the towns a S^he . , t j ! exception's are the and cities few of Columbia and Charleston a counties in which the sale of whisky is prohibited by law. In fact, in those counties in which no dispensaries are established it would conduce to a bet i t«r enforcement of law and there be less illicit sa e of whisky if dispensaries were established, As j P»bbc sentiment grows m favor of the £,»«»» h.d .nd it then .iol.lion. will b. e.o be more rl 8 sdI y enforced. Manager Must Serve In Pen. Frank Smith assistant manager of the Memphis, Tenn., street has been convicted in the criminal court of fraudulent breach of , {ul nse of a g 500 b ond intrusted to , . ' _____ Venezuelan Trouble Blows Over. j lArram 2^ received Xilr’lT bv the ‘ ® ”“““£«£■ fo^n.bled^hat £LT u iZ “'“^‘ ^" .ta anoelrs the revolution j now to be - r ' rr geJ EIGHT DIE IN FLAMES Hotel In Minneapolis Burns and Gnests are Entrapped. NINETEEN MAKE THEIR ESCAPE Those Who Perished Were Suf¬ focated By Smoke—Scene Was Replete With Horrors. Eight men lost their live* iu a fire at Minneapolis Sunday morning. The fire had its origin in the rear of the Standard Furniture store. The men were overtaken by an immense volume of smoke iu the Harvard hotel, which occupies the second, third and fourth floors of the building, and death in every instance was due to suffooation. When the men were found in various parts of the house a man named Erickson was dead and the seven oth¬ ers were unconscious. The fire was discovered by Charles Hanson, and he and the night clerk set about to awaken' the lodgers. In several in¬ stances it was necessary to break in the doors. What took place in the rooniB and narrow, dark hallways will never be known. Every man rushed for his own life. Nine¬ teen of the twenty-seven lodgers were successful, but the others were unable to beat their way through the oil smoke and fell in their tracks where they were found by the • firemen. Many of those who escaped oame stag gering out on the snowy sidewalk like drunken men, barely making their way through the smoke and heat and partially clad. Several had the most narrow escapes. The loss on the building and contents will not exceed $3,000. The dead are: Nathaniel Perly, sixty years old. C. J. Skidmore, forty-five years old. J. 8. Bently, fifty-five years old. B. Scofield, forty-fibre years old. George Rudey, forty-five years old. MichaeljMonahan, seventy-five. J. N. Friokson, of Alexandria, , , The injured Henry cotton, „ . baa- , are: Iv cut about hands. * OFFERS TO BETRAY GANG. Cudahy Receive* Letter Containing; Propo¬ sition to lletray Kidnaper*. A letter has been turned over to Chief Donahue, of the Omaha police department, in which an offer is made to deliver certain information to him regarding the abduction of young Cudahy, upon his compliance with certain conditions. The chief and Mr. Cudahy evidently considered the letter authentic, and 01 enough importance to justify a reply, because the following advertisement appeared in the columns of a local paper Sunday morning: “Your request, asked for in letter mailed at Lincoln on January 4th, to be answered before January 7tb, will be granted. “E. A. Cudahy, “J. A. Donahue.” LETTERS LONG OVERDUE. r wbicb were mailed in Rome, Ga., on A P ril l® 99 - 'Where the letters ^ been since that day has not been determined. W J. Cooper of Rome, des red to bfl P la f d °° tbe P^sion roll. He wrote t0 Congressman , Maddox, of the Seventh district and Congressman Livingston, of the Fifth district. The letters are stamped as having been mailed on the date stated Nearly two years has passed since the letters were P 08 e Boers Release Helvetia Prisoners. A London special says that the Boers have released the members of the Liverpool regiment captured at Helvetia on December 29. Ten Hour Day Causes Strike. The miners of the Star mine at A.p.o, Clo.. h... .true. bed..,, o, .u.mpt oltbe o.nee. lo enloec. . ten hour day system. “JOB WAS WELL DONE.” Aged Father of Kx«cnt«<i Murderer Com “•“** on the “*“*•** James Kelly, , b » n ged . a negrojaa whom he first robbed. The murder er ’s father, an old man bent with age aD fl infirmities, saw the execution. The father watched the proceedings closely and when the body had been out dow. h. th. .b«ur .nd -i...< n >gg ^ ers hanged, but dat is de best job 1 all. Dat was my youngest child but you sure did hang him HANKING UP AROUND BUILD INQS. 'For banking up around buildings sawdust is without doubt the best. When It cannot be secured, use partly tted manure, with a large portion ol 8 tr aw in It That; left about old straw stacks, around which stock run al! winter, will do very well if the bank lag up is done early, so it can have time to settle down before frost. This Will resist cold wind and keep out •ffost wonderfully, and it will not heave fjr crack by frost, as soil or the more heavy kinds of manure will do. Part¬ ly rotted horse manure is also very good for banking up around buildings •New England has now seal nearly B,000 men to the front In South Africa. ______ K Buteful Story. When a young man, the late Mar¬ quis of Bute, while strolling through i wood in the neighborhood of Roth¬ esay, was accosted by a little Cockus} tourist, who told him he was glnd tc see a civilized human being at last AT the natives he had met were, he re¬ marked, like a pack of wild beasts “But maybe, cockalorum,” continued the tourist, deceived by the patriclai youth’s accent, “you’re an Englishman like me?” “No, I’m a Bute man,” re¬ plied the Marquis. ‘Then, where on earth were you tamed?” inquired th< Cockney, in astonishment. The juve¬ nile head of the house of Bute put oi a very fierce expression, and, raisinj menacingly a cudgel he was carrying roared: “Who said I was tamed!” Tin alarmed Londoner uttered not anothei word, but turned and ran for dear lif< In the direction of Rothesay.— Lsndoi Chronicle. Another . w Victim, ,. Angellne (tenderly)—Listen, Claudel Youse are my affinity! I feel it In my very soul! Claude—Hully Gee! Wot’s an affinity? (fervently)—An affinity, Angelina affinity Is Claude! O Claude! An a guy wo t uas got ten cents and Is will [ UK ter i>i ow it!—Puck. - — 'The purest Chinese la spoken at Nanking, and is called “the language ♦?,* the Mandarins.” Now being built, is confidently expected to bo the fastest sailing vessel ever built. Its <. 0 nBtruotion is being kept a secret, but it is vhispered that it will easily hold the oup. Amerloa is rapidly coming to the front. A good example of this is in that famous household remedy, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which has defended health for bait a cen tury past. It holds the record for the cure of dyspepsia, Indigestion, constipa¬ tion, nervousness,bilioumess and ia grippe. Oi CottrAC. Up lived on the fat of tha land-^ A natural thin#, to bo sure - When the circumstance* you understand: He conducted au anti-fat euro. The ISeat Proscription for Clilll* and Fever is a bottle of GuOVK’a Ta.8TBI.K84 1 mi x.T onic. It 1* »lmply iron and quinine in « lamella* form. No cure—no pay. I'rioe-Wu. The Merry-Go-Round. The noises of the street I love— *tia natural, you see — When other men have business that make* business for me. THE CHANGE OF LIFE Is the most important period in modern a wo¬ man’s existence. Owing to methods of living, not one woman in a thousand approaches this experiencing perfectly natural change without a train of very annoying and some¬ times painful symptoms. flashes, sending Those dreadful hot the blood surging to the heart until it seems ready to burst, and the faint feeling that follows, sometimes with chills, as if the heart were going to stop for good, are symptoms of a dan¬ gerous, nervous trouble. Those hot flashes are just so many calls from nature for h«Ap. The nerves are cry b: \ & Mas. JxsxiB Noam. ing out for assistance. The cry should be heeded in time. Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound was pre¬ pared to meet tbe needs of woman’s system at this trying period of her life. It builds up the weakened nervous system, and enables a woman to pass that grand change triumphantly. caused “ I was a very sick woman, by Change of Life. I suffered with hot flushes, and fainting spells. I was afraid to go on the street, my bead and back troubled me so. I was en¬ tirely cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.”— Mbs. Jennie Noblb, 5010 Keyser St, Germantown, Pa. Plant System. PASSENGER SCHEDULES. Arrivals and Departures at Jesup, Ga. Departures. In Effect Oct. 1, 1900. Arrivals. ______ For Savannah and points North, East and From Savannah and points North, East Northeast. and Northeast. Train No. 16 Leaves 8 3) am Train No. 23 Arrives ..... 5 15 a m . 53 6 34am . 5 20 p m ..... 32 U 23 a m 35 ..... 9 40 a in • 36 .10 45 p m 33 ..... 4 44 p m 78 .11 20 p m “ 15 ..... 6 45 p m For Waycross and points South, West, From Wayeross”and and points South, Southwest and North west. Southwest Northwest. Train No. 23 Leaves. 6 8u a m Train No. 16 Arrives . 8 20 a m .. “ “ 22 * 20 •• “ 63 “ . .. 6 34 a m ,. p m “ *• 35 “ 9 40 a m “ “ 32 . 11 23 a m . .. •* “ 86 “ 10 46 iA „ .. ga «. . .. 4 44 p m . p “ " 15 “ 7 00 p m “ •• 78 “ .11 20 p m . .. ____ points South. For Jacksonville and points South. From Jacksonville ami Train No. 13 Leaves ........ 5 30 a m Train No. 14 Arrives 10 45 p m Solid train Cincinnati to Jacksonville. Solid train Jacksonville to Cincinnati. All trains run daily. with Mail Steamship of Peninsular and Connection made at Port Tampa U. S. Occi¬ dental Steamship Line for Key West and Havana, leaving Port Tampa Mondays, Thurs¬ days and Saturdays at 11 p. m. through service, trains making local Btops, and sched¬ For further information, oar ules to other points, apply to Agent, Fassengor Station. A. W. STRIPLING, Ticket Pass. J. H. PO HEMU8, Traveling Agent. Ga. B. W. WKENN, Passenger Traffic Manager, Savannah, deck application Illustrated playing cards can be secured at 25 cents per upon to agents of the Plant System. PANAMA IS TUKEAIENED. Department Takes Steps to Pro¬ tect Isthmus and American interests. The state department received ad¬ vices Tuesday from Consul General Gudger, at Panama, indicating that the Colombian revolution had again assumed a serious aspect. He states that the Colombian government an¬ nounces that the revolutionists are approaching Panama, and are making preparations for a fight, which is like¬ ly to occur soon. The state department intends tak¬ ing vigorous action if the city is threat¬ ened with bombardment, to protect American interesis and to carry out the dhties we have assumed by treaty for the protection of the Isthmus. At present the gunboat Ranger is at Panama, and the Philadelphia and Iowa are on ( heir w ay to that locality. APPEAL FOB HELP Had* Bj Storm Victims In Uttlo Town LsOruft, Tennessee. The people of LaGrange, Tenn., have sent out en appeal for help. They say that all the business portion and nearly »U the residence postion of the town are in ruins and many of the inhabitants are left utterly destitute. They ask that contributions be sent to W. F. Hancock, mayor of the town. Safe Crackers at Work. Professional cracksmen burglarized the Farmers’ bank at Orland, O. T., Wednesday night, and secured more *han $5,000. The robbers blew the safe open with nitroglycerine. . BISPENSAKY KOIUSEU OF CASH. Headquarter* For John Barleycorn at KlngAtrre, 8. C , Suffer* Los*. The Williamsburg county liquor dispensary, at Kingstree, 8. C., is re¬ ported to # bave been robbed of $1,800 in caali Wednesday night. M. Player, the dispenser, is alleged to have discovered the loss Thursday morning. This is the largest loss by robbery incurred by a county dispensary since the inauguration of the dispensary. II. P. Crum, liquor commissioner dis¬ patched an inspector to Kingstree. WON’T HELP “BAD” STUDENTS. Evangelical Minister* of Atlanta Refuse to Intervene In Their Kchalf. Evangelical ministers of Atlanta, Ga., refused to appoint a committee to co-operats with a similar committee appointed by the Baptist ministers to intervene with the faculty of the Technological school in behalf of the alleged rebellious students of that in¬ stitution. One of the ministers Baid there was no sooner way of destroying authority than to iuterfere in such matters. WOKKMEN BLOWN TO ATOM8. Fovrder Explosion In Repauno Chemical Company Work* Doe* Fearful Damage. A fearful explosion of powder oc¬ curred Friday in the powder machine house of the Repauno Chemical com¬ pany, whose works are located at Thompson Point, N. Y., 17 miles be¬ low Philadelphia. The building was destroyed and three workmen iu it at tho time were blown to atoms. TO CHANGE BASE. Proposition to Deal With China Direct From Washington City. A- Washington special Rays: The United States has proposed that tbe question of indemnity and of framing new commercial treaties with China shall be considered by au international commission either at Washington or the capital of one of the other powers concerned, thus removing these two phases of the negotiations from Pekin. NO. 33. COLD ON THE CONTINENT. Severe Gales, Blizzards and Frig¬ id Waves Sweep the Whole of Europe. Advioes from London state that se¬ vere cold haB suddenly set in through¬ out Europe. In England it is accom¬ panied by a northeasterly wind, amounting to a gale over the the chan¬ nel. At Dover a boat was capsized, four persons being drowned, and prob¬ ably other accidents will be reported. On the continent the weather is still more severe. Snow has fallen as far south as Naples, and in St. Petersburg the oold is so intense that the police iu the streets have had to be frequent¬ ly relieved, and the schools to be closed.* At Moscow the temperature is thirty degrees below zero. Tremendous gales are blowing over the Adriatic. Terrible blizzards are reported from Austria aud southern Russia, extinguishing signal lights and resulting in the derailing of the Orient express at Altpazua. The storm caused a collision be¬ tween passenger trains at Mikola near Szatmar, Hungary, six persons being killed. Nine people were frozen to death on a high road in Transylvania. Odessa is completely snowbound. The har¬ bor is frozen over and trains are un ible to enter or depart in consequence of the drifts. Severe cold is reported throughout France aud Italy. A foot of snow fell at Marseilles Saturday evening and the mercery showod eighteen degrees of frost in Paris Sunday. There have been a number of deaths in the streets. Trains from along distance are greatly delayed. in southern Snow has fallen even Italy, and the city of Rome and sur romuliiig country are snowclad for the first time in many years. Crowds as¬ sembled on the Pjnoio to witness the rare panorama. SWEEPING CHANGES SCHEDULED. A Number of Ofllco* of lha A* A W. F. Railroad to Ba Abolt*had. The report ia current in Atlanta, Ga., that under an order which will be iasued by President and General Manager Charles A. Wicker-ham, o t the Atlanta and West Point Railroad and Western Railway of Alabama, several of the most important offloes on the system will be abolished. In plaoe of the office of superintend¬ ent, which is among the offices abol¬ ished, the office of consulting engineer has been created and George F. Hug gans, the present superintendent, given the position RULES WERE SUSPENDED. Home Takes Advantage Thereof and Passes Many Bills. Under suspension of the rules the house Monday passed bills to divide Kentucky and West Virginia into two judicial districts, to create another district judge in the northern district of Ohio; to refer to the secretary of the interior for investigation the claim of the state of Texas for moneys ex¬ pended on public improvements in Greer county before the decision of the supreme court placed it within tbs jurisdiction of Oklahoma. WISCONSIN COLONY COMING. Land and Saw Mill Property Purchased By Promoter In Florida. A. C. McComb, of Wisconsin, has purchased 50,000 acres of land south of Tallahassee, Fla., along the line of the Carabellc, Tallahassee and Geor¬ gia railroad, and also big sawmill properties at McIntyre. This deal is for the purpose oi establishing a Wis¬ consin colony, and Mr. McComb al¬ ready has a number of families from bis state preparing to move to the colony site within the next few days.